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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an Emerging Business Trend

Nexa Collect

DeFi is a collective term for financial products and services that are accessible to anyone who can use Ethereum over the internet. DeFi Apps are built on the Ethereum blockchain. List of contents. What is DeFi? What exactly is DeFi? What is so special about DeFi? Why do we need decentralized finance? What are the use cases of DeFi? What are the reasons underlying DeFi as an emerging business trend?

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Block-LIeb & Janger article proposes changes in unconscionability rules

Public Citizen

Susan Block-Lieb of Fordham and Edward J. Janger of Brooklyn have written Fit for its Ordinary Purpose: Implied Warranties and Common Law Duties for Consumer Finance Contracts, 59 Houston Law Review 3 (2021).   Here's the abstract: The history of consumer goods and consumer credit markets presents an anomaly: market transactions for consumer goods and credit transactions evolved in tandem from face to face and bespoke to standardized and widely distributed; the law governin